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Fun Ways to Celebrate the Start of Summer

The summer solstice offers the most hours of daylight all year. According to Space.com, the summer solstice occurs when one of the Earth’s poles has its maximum tilt toward the sun. The summer solstice falls on June 20, 21 or 22 in the Northern Hemisphere.

Country music fans get ready for top lineup at Boot Music Festival

The Northwestern State athletic department is bringing one of country music’s biggest hitmakers of the past decade and an emerging force in the Texas country/Americana scene to headline the two-day Top of the Boot Music Festival from Oct. 16-17.Lee Brice, who had a string of eight No.

NPD seeking suspect in Grace Avenue shooting

As of Monday, May 25, the Natchitoches Police Department reported that Tedrick White, BM, 25, of Nathitoches was a suspect wanted for a homicide that occurred earlier this month on Grace Avenue.

Natural hazards affecting farm losses in Parish

Natchitoches Parish Farms Lose $537.4K per Year to Natural HazardsA new study on behalf of Trace One has identified the U.S. counties and states with the largest agricultural losses due to natural disasters.•The impact of natural disasters on Natchitoches Parish ag.

JUST TALKIN’

Here’s a few things to ponder while adjusting to the fact LSU Baseball won’t be in Omaha this year...one year after winning the National Championship. The last time they missed the NCAA Tournament was in 2011.

Specialists giving Northwestern’s pipe organ a glow-up

N o r t h w e s t e r n State’s pipe organ is getting a glow-up Specialists from Reuter Organ Company arrived in Natchitoches this week to disassemble, pack and transport Northwestern State University’s famed pipe organ back to its place of origin in Lawrence, Kansas, where it will undergo...

New schoolmobile takes books to Parish students

The Natchitoches Parish Library (NPL) has placed a new Schoolmobile into service, extending free educational resources into the schools and neighborhoods of Natchitoches Parish and ensuring that distance and transportation are never barriers to learning.